Overthinking 'Entourage' II: Where's All The Fucking?
Today's LAT continues its ongoing mission of digging beneath the surface of HBO's popular, softcore Hollywood-lifestyle-porn series Entourage by posing the kinds of probing questions that expose the dramatic Truth obscured by its glitter-speckled veneer, asking, "Hey, for a show in which the main characters do little besides chase tail, why don't we see some fucking?"
It's a sex farce without the sex; you presume that the young movie star Vince (Adrian Grenier) has a stable of rotating women, but these conquests are like Vince's acting talent — implied, not shown, as if to see Vince actually engaged in the sex act would turn off viewers. [...]
"Sex and the City" in its unbidden depictions of sex and presentation of boy toys, earned the reputation of being written for women and gay men by women and gay men. The show was nowhere near as chaste or ashamed about the self-conscious, bad ballet of lovemaking as "Entourage" is. Apparently, it's actually straight males who find sex icky. The self-censorship is even more glaring given that "Entourage" otherwise revels in displaying the spoils of new Hollywood money (in the codified world of the show, you have to have the scene in which Vince buys three gleaming new sports cars on the spot).
While Entourage has on at least one occasion imported a stunt cock from another HBO series to demonstrate that there is, in fact, some fucking going on at the mansion, the show has been curiously shy about allowing its stars to lace up their square-toed, carnal slippers and perform the "bad ballet of lovemaking" before the greedy eyes of its libertine pay-cable audience. Perhaps its producers fear that if they depict the actual moment in which Turtle and his best friend cross swords during the act of their totally heterosexual servicing of a single female admirer, the mystery of whether or not the incident was truly a regrettable "occupational hazard" of their gangbang or something sinisterly orchestrated by bi-curious Viking Johnny Drama would be forever ruined.